Beth Kearney

Early Career Researcher and Casual Academic at The University of Queensland

Criticism

On literature

2024. ‘Happening Again: Why an abortion story matters.’ MAI Journal, Spring 2024, forthcoming.

2024. 'Get specific: Facing life in all its gritty detail.' The Australian Book Review, September 2024.

2024. ‘Beth Kearney reviews Consent by Vanessa Springora.’ Asymptote Journal, July 2024.

2023. With Frances Egan ‘How autofiction turns the personal into the political.’ The Conversation, 11 January 2023.

On visual art

2018. ‘L’Art féministe de Niki de Saint Phalle.’ La Revue Dire 27, no. 3 (Autumn): 18-24.

2017. ‘“Fictitious Realities” at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre.’ Memo Review, 12 August 2017.

2017. ‘Insistently Henson: “Bill Henson” at the National Gallery of Victoria.’ Memo Review, 22 April 2017.

2017. ‘Elaborate Irreverence: Ramesh Nithiyendran’s “In the beginning.”’ Memo Review, 27 January 2017.

Academic

Theses

2024. 'Unfixing Self: Twenty-First Century Women’s Phototexts in French.' PhD thesis at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Jan 2020-Dec 2021 / Jan 2023-June 2024).

2019. 'Figures de femmes chez Valentine Penrose : à la croisée du saphisme littéraire et du roman gothique.' Mémoire de maîtrise à l'Université de Montréal, Canada (Jan 2018-Dec 2019).

Guest edited special issue

2024. Co-edited with Françoise Campbell. ‘Ambivalence as Agency in Contemporary Francophone Narratives of Selfhood.’ Special issue, Francosphères 14 (2) (Winter): forthcoming.

Book chapters

2024. ‘Fleeing the Heterosexual Norm: Gothic Tropes and Illicit Lesbianism in Martha’s Opera (1946).’ In Valentine Penrose: Surrealist, Poet, Artist, Voyager, edited by Felicity Gee, forthcoming. London: Bloomsbury.

2024. Co-authored with Bonnie Thomas ‘History or Herstory: Photography in Gisèle Pineau’s Ady, soleil noir (2021).’ In Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe, edited by Karunika Kardak and Catherine Barbour, forthcoming. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Encylopedia entry

2024. ‘Lydia Flem.’ Biblio-biographic profile for The Literary Encyclopedia, forthcoming.

Articles

2024. Co-authored with Françoise Campbell. ‘Introduction: Ambivalence as Agency in Contemporary Francophone Narratives of Selfhood.’ Francosphères 14 (2) (Winter): forthcoming.

2023. Co-authored with Leslie Barnes. ‘Portrait of a Lost Paradise: Diasporic Delusions in Linda Lê’s Héroïnes (2017).’ L’Esprit Créateur 63, no. 4: 112-124.

2023. ‘“L’Histoire se lit dans la rue”: Urban streetscapes as sites of a fragmented identity in Colette Fellous’s Avenue de France (2001).’ Australian Journal of French Studies 60 (2): 136-148.

2022. Co-authored with Bonnie Thomas. ‘Uncovering Adrienne Fidelin: Disorderly Subjectivity in Gisèle Pineau’s Ady, soleil noir (2021).’ Francosphères 11, no. 2: 227-245.

2021. ‘“Je suis amoureuse de la forêt, comme du fleuve”: partage et merveilleux dans la collaboration photolittéraire de S. Corinna Bille et Suzi Pilet.’ La Revue internationale de Photolittérature no. 3.

2020. ‘“Un gouffre d’où il était illusoire d’essayer de sortir”: sociopoétique de la ville napolitaine dans L’Amie prodigieuse d’Elena Ferrante.‘ Sociopoétiques no. 5.

2020. ‘The Nemesis of an Infamous Hungarian Countess: Hybris and Faustianism in La Comtesse sanglante (1962) by Valentine Penrose.’ MuseMedusa no. 8.

2020. ‘“Un dimanche à Mytilène”: topographies de l’exotisme dans Dons des féminines (1951) de Valentine Penrose.’ Postures no. 31.

2019. ‘“Traversé de fantômes”: la hantise intermédiale d’Y penser sans cesse de Marie NDiaye et de Denis Cointe (2011, 2012).‘ Sens public.

2018. ‘Camille Claudel as modern di Butades.’ MuseMedusa no. 6.

Reviews and surveys

2024. ‘Review of Faire œuvre à deux. Le Livre surréaliste au féminin by Andrea Oberhuber.' L'Ésprit créateur, forthcoming.

2024. ‘Francophone and French Studies: Literature, 2000 to the Present Day.’ The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 84 (1): 66-92.

2023. Review of Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives, edited volume by Marleen Rensen and Christopher Wiley. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

2022. Review of Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile, by Antonia Wimbush. Modern & Contemporary France 31 (3): 432-433.

Translation (French to English)

Poetry

2024. Florence Rosalie. Everywhere, there is bread and oil. We can salt the water. Artist book created in residence at House Conspiracy by Florence Rosalie (poems and cyanotypes), with selected poems translated by Beth Kearney.

Monograph

2019. Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Jean-Marc Larrue. Media Do Not Exist, book co-translated by John Detre and Beth Kearney. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.

Articles

I have also translated serveral academic articles and worked as a translator for the academic journals Sens public and MuseMedusa.

Creative

2024. ‘Wave and Blue.’ Island Magazine.